THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

It’s been 7 years (2011-2018) of Syrian civil war and the war is still on. Millions of Syrians died and many displaced.

The Syrians who survived but have lost their loved ones are compelled to live in refugee camps.

Almost whole Syria has vanished and vivacious cities are turned as a battleground.

THE WAR

The war started in 2011 as part of a wider wave of 2011 Arab Spring protests.

(The Arab Spring also referred to as Arab revolutions was a revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent demonstrations, protests, riots, coups, foreign interventions, and civil wars in North Africa and the Middle East that began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia with the TunisianRevolution).

It grew out of discontent with the Assad government and escalated into an armed conflict when protests calling for his removal were violently suppressed.

And a number of countries in the region and beyond being either directly involved, or rendering support to one or another faction.

SYRIAN CIVIL WAR: BETWEEN DIFFERENT GROUPS

The representation of different groups fighting in Syria and subgroups supporting them

Bashar-AL-Assad(Belongs to Shia community) is present president of Syria and he has the support of Russia, Iran(Shia Country), Shia community including Hezbollah (Is a Shia Islamist political party and a militant group from Lebanon).

Mr. Bashaar Al Assad

REBEL GROUPSas these are also known as Sunni rebel groups or free Syrian army group.

And a majority of Sunni Gulf states are supporting them for the sake of their own community.

KURDSare one of the indigenous peoples of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands in what is now south-eastern Turkey, north-eastern Syria, northern Iraq, north-western Iran and south-western Armenia.

The Zaatari camp in Jordan is the world’s largest Syrian refugee camp.

Opened in July 2012 and in 2013 it already hosted above 100,000 refugees.

The Azraq and Mrajeeb Al Fhood camps were then built to bring Zaatari back to its full capacity of 80,000.

Zaatari and Azraq are now the two largest Syrian refugee camps.

UNHCR reports that only 35,000 of the 54,000 people registered in the Azraq camp are actually present there.

In Turkey, the population of Syrian refugees is estimated to be around 3.0 million, with much more unregistered, of whom 260,000 live in the 22 camps as of May 2017.

The camps, also known as Temporary Accommodation Centers or Temporary Protection Centers run by the government-led Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency with support from the United Nations and NGO partners.

Lebanon hosts about 1.5 million Syrian refugees, which amounts to more than one-fourth of the total population of Lebanon, as of February 2017.

This is by far the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide One million refugees are registered with UNHCR.

There are 240,000 registered Syrian refugees in Iraq, 90,000 of whom reside in camps managed by UNHCR, IRC and the Directorate of Health.

All the ten Syrian refugee camps in Iraq are within the Kurdish region.

LIFE INSIDE THE REFUGEE CAMPS

Being a refugee is not a will of anybody, but the circumstances forces to follow those difficult paths.

Can you imagine living in refugee camps?

In a simple word, it’s “TERRIBLE”.

When male members of the family become jobless, and the female members are impelled to serve as a sex slave or to sell themselves to the males of other Gulf countries for the survival of their family and kids.

Then, how will you define these circumstances?

Isn’t like a hell?

Undoubtedly the host countries are trying to give their best facilities in the refugee camps.

But they are not enough as the number of refugees is going beyond the limit day by day.

The Syrians who are unwillingly living in refugee camps.

A few years back they also had a beautiful home, families, kids, happy life and laughter, enjoyment, fun, and livelihood in their life.

But now there are only silent roads, ruined houses, blood stains, painful screech and the mangled bodies of loved ones.

There are endless pain and tears in the life of every Syrian individual and no one can either feel it nor anyone can make it less painful.

Probably for them, it will take years and centuries to omit the scars of war.

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